Comment 15 for bug 1698233

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote : Re: New libepoxy0 causes hang at boot

>On the other hand I know development resources are limited and I won't blame you if you decide it's not worth the effort because of the very few people it affects, and the fact that it's AMD's fault not Ubuntu's.

this is something I don't understand, sorry.
I caused a regression, and I will fix it.
I don't care about how difficult it might be, or how many times I'll have to ask you to test a fix, but if you agree, lets trace this issue to the bottom, and then forward the issue upstream.

I did a new test build, since the difference between the working one and the bad one are 4 patches, and two of them are just null pointer checks, I disabled one of the two,
in particular:
"upstream/8d58c890646fc1f43bcab702bb9ed6bae94daefe.patch"

this patch changes a little bit the API to get the gl context, so maybe since the proprietary drivers are old, it might be causing your issue.

The other patch that might be source of troubles is this one:
debian/patches/upstream/b3b8bd9af7bf1fcfe544fd131f4d4f0d117ae7bc.patch

because of this change: